ZTE Nubia Z17 Smartphone Spotted on TENAA

ZTE's upcoming device was dubbed as the ZTE Nubia Z17, which closely resembles the rear panel of the iPhone 7Plus.(Photo : YouTube Screenshot)

An upcoming ZTE smartphone has been spotted on the website of China's telecommunication certification authority (TENAA). The new device was dubbed as the ZTE Nubia Z17, which closely resembles the rear panel of the iPhone 7Plus.

As per TENAA listing, the upcoming ZTE Nubia Z17 smartphone features a metallic unibody design. It has 5.5-inch Full HD display screen with 1920 pixels by 1080 pixels resolution.

Under the hood, the handheld device powered by an octa-core processor (more likely a Snapdragon 653) clocked at a speed of 2.0 Ghz. It comes with a huge 4GB of RAM onboard and built-in 64GB of internal memory storage.

The ZTE Nubia Z17 smartphone runs on Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow) operating system out of the box. Fueling the phone is a 3560 mAh capacity battery. Interestingly, the device is equipped with dual rear-facing cameras in the top left-hand side of the phone with dual LED flash support. The handset measures body dimensions of 154.57 mm x 76.02 mm x 7.3 mm and weighs around 170 grams. It will be available in gold color option.

The ZTE Nubia Z17 is reportedly cost around 2,699 Yuan or roughly equivalent to $390. Meanwhile, the Chinese company also recently revealed its smaller version of the phone dubbed as the ZTE Nubia Z17 Mini. The phone features 5.2-inch HD display screen with 1280 pixels by 720 pixels resolution.

It is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 processor, 2900 mAh capacity battery, and runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) operating system out of the box. It measures body dimensions of 155.7 mm x 76.7 mm x 7.68 mm.